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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.
Slamming brutal death metal stalwarts from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2006 with a deep catalog spanning releases from Carnal Pleasures through 2018's When Push Comes To Shove. Their sound draws from brutal death metal, grindcore, and slamming beatdown, recorded at Germany's Kohlekeller Studio.
San Diego deathcore veterans known for combining melodic sensibility with crushing breakdowns and death metal ferocity, one of the genre's most consistent and well-regarded acts blending sweeping lead guitar work with relentless heaviness.
Baltimore's Cast upon the World fuse death metal's guttural intensity with deathcore's structural breakdowns, carving out a sound centered on abrupt tempo drops and suffocating low-end density.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2018. They deliver slamming, punishing extremity from Scotland's largest city.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Indianapolis band straddling brutal death metal and deathcore, delivering low-tuned, gut-punching heaviness with technical precision and pit-focused Midwest underground energy.
Blackened deathcore band from Kellinghusen, Germany, formed in 2015. They fuse the darkness of black metal with the crushing breakdowns of deathcore and death metal aggression.
Celestial Exile from Bylas blends the down-tuned brutality of death metal with the atmospheric heaviness and breakdowns of deathcore, rooted in the Native American community of the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona. Their sound carries an outsider intensity shaped by geographic and cultural isolation.
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